] Google has added another service to their mobile
] offerings: Google Local. Punch in your search term, as
] well as the location or zip code to limit your search,
] and receive a nice, mobile-sized Google Map with details
] listed below. The service is—in typical Google
] style—free

Google will be the new satan someday.

Google Offers Local Mobile Search and Other Software Stories : Gizmodo

] Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have
] invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the
] doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button,
] leap out of bed.
]
] After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is
] equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to
] another part of the room.
]
] "When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought
] to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner
] from going back to sleep," New Scientist magazine said
] Tuesday.

I could use one of these.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

] Iceland's parliament voted overwhelmingly this week to
] grant Mr Fischer citizenship - and with it an Icelandic
] passport.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Fischer 'put Iceland on the map'

] Google has unceremoniously, and without comment, yanked
] its latest labs "project" after less than twenty four
] hours. In 'Google X' a software engineer had replaced the
] main text navigation bar on the Google home page with a
] Mac OS X-style dock. A row of eight icons zoomed and
] shrank as the mouse hovered over them, the row itself
] shuffling to make room for the expansion - exactly like
] Mac OS X's dock.
]
]
] "Today is an amazing day," burbled software engineer
] Chikai Ohazama on the Google weblog. "It's fulfilling to
] have the opportunity to reach the audience we always
] dreamed of when we started Keyhole five years ago, and
] that by itself is absolute coolness," he continued.
]
]
] "I hope all of you enjoy it - especially Mac users, who
] I'm sure will appreciate its lineage."
]
]
] No, really.
]
]
] In case anyone missed the Mac reference, a sickly
] reminder above the Google copyright notice read: "Roses
] are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you."

Neat. Still can be found here: http://dinkdoink.com/me/googlex/

Google's X Files disappear | The Register

] Berlin - A German man, who persuaded doctors to give him
] a second penis, lost his wife after he showed her the
] result.

 Man with two penises can't get any loving...

Acidus wrote:

]
] Movie rating does factor in to what movies I want to see. For
] example, I refused to see AVP, because I felt with such an
] intense back history, the story could not be told properly and
] still have a PG-13 rating. Higher ratings typically translates
] into more mature or adult story line.
]
] That said, there are times when I will see a movie and be
] shocked by just how good it was. National Treasure was a good
] example of this. Even though it was PG, tt had a nice dash of
] history, some fun break-in and chase scenes, and I really
] enjoyed it.

The MPAA rating system never reflects story. Only that some movies have some measure of taboo in them. The taboo's are often dated, arbitrary, inconsistent, and one may or may not be offended by them at all.

All and all, there should be three ratings. For kids, mature, and porn. Parents should be able to order "mature" id cards for their kids if they can understand fiction without becoming crazy or perverted. If you're mature, your mind won't be corrupted by petty sex and violence. The qualifier for porn should be a movie whose content is sex based rather than story based. Even a movie with a story, and a lot of sex shouldn't be considered porn. This letter bullshit with the retarded explanations has to go. It mostly only serves a destructive purpose.

RE: Ep III to be PG-13 (gasp!)

NOT WORK SAFE....but damn funny

'A New Bunny'

By Bug.

Tonight the blood flowed and cigarettes scorched at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ when the Sniperz opened for Tilt A Whirl and the Millionaire Reverends. Jacko, the intrepid promoter for The Bridghton Bar in Long Branch, had the balls to put the Sniperz onstage again, after their raunchy January debut, and the ensuing madness set the stage for another night of truly gritty musical entertainment. With a stomache full of rum and veins full of...um...adrenaline (sure, sounds good), I entered the CB's by the Sea of Brigton Bar and proceeded to pay about five bucks for quality entertainment, yet again.

I remember seeing The Dickies here during my youth at this place, which ranks among the high points of my post-high school existence, but tonight's entertainment showcased some of the most wild punk rock madness that could take the sleepy Jersey Shore city to Hell.

As an opening band, the Sniperz fucked everything up. They showed up late, the lead singer seemed more wasted than Iggy Pop circa 1973, and the drummer was apparently their lead guitarist sitting in for erstwhile drummer Johnny Larkin (of The Golden Dawn). Going White Stripes' style (one guitarist/vocalist and one drummer/vocalist), the audio-terrorists blared through ten or eleven disgusting songs about AIDS, abortion, heroin, Ronald Reagan and sundry other terrifying topics with gleeful abandon and skilless hatred for their audience. Not since the days of Dead Boys and GG Allin has a band cared less about caring and more about offending.

Lead Vocalist/guitarist Patrick Splat fucked up his own songs, lost his pants mid-set, feigned (?) masturbation, broke at least two strings, and spewed all manner of anti-social lyrics and thoroughly demeaning stage patter before vomiting into a bag from dopesickness. Drummer Jay D smashed away at the kit like a lion on a hyena. His background vocals provided a healthy support to Splat's snotty ramblings in a way that evoked some of the most exemplary germs gigs.

Tilt a Whirl mercifully took the stage from the Ocean County kooks to provide a breezy, punkish sonic fest of soaring melodies until the Millionaire Reverends worked their primal, gospel-cum-stooges rhythms out over the crowd. In all, I wound up having to hang out with the biggest assholes that played that evening- the local boys Snipers (never knew hell was local). Never see this band. Never unless you want to get fucked till your're sore in the parking lot afterward, like I did. Check out the Millionaire Reverends and Tilt A Whirl, though. They won't puke or bleed on you.
-Ladybug

The Snipers Puke and Burn In Long Branch 03/09/05

] A 27-year-old lady presented with persistent cough,
] sputum and fever for the preceding six months. Inspite of
] trials with antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis treatment
] for the preceeding four months, her symptoms did not
] improve. A subsequent chest radiograph showed
] non-homogeneous collapse-consolidation of right upper
] lobe. Videobronchoscopy revealed an inverted bag like
] structure in right upper lobe bronchus and rigid
] bronchoscopic removal with biopsy forceps confirmed the
] presence of a condom. Detailed retrospective history also
] confirmed accidental inhalation of the condom during
] fellatio.

Entrez PubMed

] I yanked the kickass soundtrack from the North Korean
] Delegation animation. Quite frankly, I'm sticking this in
] iTunes and keeping it on repeat on my iPod as I ride the
] Greyhound to New York City for 8 hours. Meanwhile,
] remixers, start your engines!

Xeni Jardin's North Korean Blog adventure.

Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie